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document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

Subject: document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

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2 messages between Aug 11, 2013 and Aug 12, 2013.

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乙酸鋰· Aug 11, 2013, 04:30 UTC · lore

Hi,

Please document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

Regards, ch3cooli

Junio C Hamano· Aug 12, 2013, 06:23 UTC · re: 乙酸鋰 · lore

Re: document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:

> Please document git blame --no-follow and git diff --no-follow

I do not think these (and blame/diff --follow) make any sense.

The ideal would be to reject the nonsense optoin at the command parser level. The second best is not to document it. The worst is to document them as nonsense.

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